Word: normality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...experiences: Past environmental influences are imbedded in the brain in the form of memory, and the effect of these influences on behavior is dependent solely on the functioning of the brain. This point of view suggests several social implications: The rehabilitation of violent criminals assumes that the subjects have normal brains. From evidence presented by Drs. Mark and Ervin, it is quite likely that a high proportion of people arrested for violent behavior have poor impulse control due to malfunctioning of the brain. In such cases, social rehabilitation is useless; a medical response through either drug treatment or surgical operations...
Glasses were broken and furniture was pushed over, but Barrett-described damage as "nothing." "It was the normal kind of thing," he said...
...Chicago-a brutally normal city that drew Rennie Davis to a 4-H convention long ago and produced the eight-ball headed judge and a jury venire "so white, so middle-class and middle-aged they looked like the Rolling Meadows Bowling League lost on their way to the lanes...
...chief, the eighth in their history, Commander Robin Quigley. The holiday season's first gift suggestion for the patriot who has everything was marketed by a California firm: the All-American candle that when burned gives off the scent of (Right on, Mom!) apple pie. Most normal, if not atavistic, of all, the Saturday Evening Post vowed to publish again for Middle America (see THE PRESS), complete with a Norman Rockwell painting on the first cover. Once the election clamor had died, Americans returned to the triumphs and disappointments of a world in which little had changed...
...most severely depressed pockets in the country, and statewide unemployment is far above the national average. Murphy, Tunney charged, "who claims such close ties with the White House, has said or done nothing about it." By a surprisingly large margin, the voters agreed. Tunney captured most of the normal Democratic majority and attracted an estimated 20% of the state's Republicans. Jews, blacks. Chicanos and trade-union families gave him substantial majorities, and he ran well in most of the large cities...